2023-05-08 23:01:23
A day in history
On May 9, 1945, at the request of Stalin, the Act of surrender of Germany in the Second World War was re-signed in Berlin with the participation of representatives of the Soviet Union.
For this reason, Victory Day in the countries of the Soviet bloc was celebrated on May 9, and not a day earlier, as in the rest of the world.
Also on this day
1502 – Christopher Columbus sets off from Cadiz on his fourth voyage to the New World.
1633 – the newly elected king of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Vladislav IV from Warsaw led an army to help the besieged Smolensk.
1929 – the commission of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine (b) to study the practice of implementing a new national policy in the BSSR began to work
1950 — the European Coal and Steel Community (forerunner of the European Union) was formed. In memory of this day, the European Union countries celebrate Europe Day.
1953 – the first issue of the literary magazine “Youth” was published in Minsk.
1994 — Nelson Mandela became the walking black president of South Africa.
They were born on this day
1837 – German industrialist Adam Opelwho founded the car company of the same name.
1866 — a theater artist was born in Hrodna Leo Bakst. After the Bolshevik revolution, he, like many of his colleagues, moved to Paris, where Bakst’s works enjoyed great success, and he himself lived happily to old age.
1892 – a historian and ethnographer was born in the Medellin region Michal Myleshka. His career ended with the beginning of Stalin’s repressions, back in 1930. Arrests and exiles ended with a message: after 1940, the fate of the scientist is unknown. There are still works by Michal Myleshka, one of which is “Stone in the Beliefs and Traditions of Belarusians”.
1913 — Vasyl Ivashyn, Belarusian literary critic, teacher.
1929 — Ludvig Osetsky, Belarusian graphic artist
In memory
1794 – died Joseph Casimir Kosakovskystatesman of the Republic of Poland, Bishop of Infla.
1805 – died Friedrich SchillerGerman poet and playwright.
1891 – died Adam Stanislav KrasinskiVilnius bishop, preacher, philologist, poet, translator.
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